Terse Hash Dereferencing

Since emacs 23.2 was released the hash creation part of my _h macrois now obsolete. (or maybe not – perhaps allowing nested braces would make usage cleaner at the cost of significant complexity)? However, I suspect that is only one part of what would make emacs lisp nested data structures pleasant to use.

The other piece of the puzzle is dereferencing.

We don’t need a macro to implement the set and get functionality that _h includes so far. It was only required to prevent the braces from being evaluated.

Previously I mentioned extending the _h macro to allow for easier, or at least terser, nested hash dereferencing. The syntax I suggested would still need a macro. And I might as well leave the braces hash creation. It is unlikely my firm will upgrade to 23.2 in the next few months.